Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shooting down a St. Joseph policeman in cold blood while discussing a minor traffic accident, since which time Killer Burke had not been seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, he is wanted in New York for the slaying of Gang King Frankie Uale in 1928, in Detroit for murdering three "Red" McLaughlin hoodlums...
...Last week a plane carrying Secretary of War. Patrick Hurley from Washington to New York for the Army-Navy game was forced down by thick fog at Edgewater Arsenal, Md. While the plane was landing, a piece of the fuselage Was blown loose, struck and gashed the .pilot's head, -momentarily stunned him. ∙Comparable rather to a marine keel-laying was the ring-laying and driving of a golden rivet at the beginning of construction on Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.'s ZRS-4, first of the two great Navy dirigibles, last year at Akron (TIME...
Manhattan police last week arrested nine men for selling narcotics, chiefly heroin, on the streets. The arrests indicated that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts...
...course I do a bit of bootlegging- it's a business! ... I don't know anything about the arsenal. . . . What do you want to kill people for? Only boys do that...
...martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...